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<author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
<author email="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author>
<author email="">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author>
<title>News</title>
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<section name="Ant 1.6beta3 ">
<h3>December 5, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta3 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a
href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/ ">download</a>. As
<section name="Ant 1.6.0 ">
<h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi ">download</a>. As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
<p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report
any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>
<p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
<p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
<p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line
<a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p>
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p>
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<section name="Ant 1.5.4">
<h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
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<div class="warning">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports
JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or
<div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
later.
</div>
</div>
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<section name="Ant 1.5.3">
<h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1">
<h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>.
Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
please raise a bug on
<a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5.2">
<h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1">
<h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3>
<p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/">
http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>.
If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant Top Level Project">
<h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
<p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
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<section name="Ant 1.5.1">
<h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi ">
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant ">
download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1">
<h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3>
<p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5">
<h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
<p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
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</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5Beta3">
<h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3>
<p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5Beta2">
<h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3>
<p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 1.5Beta1">
<h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3>
<p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant wins again!">
<a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right"/></a>
<h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
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</p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design">
<p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
<p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
</section>
<section name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder">
<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a
href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
</section>
<section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements">
<p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
be addressed.
</p>
<p>
As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
<li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
<li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
<li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
<li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
</ul>
<p>
It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
make this the last time that will happen.
</p>
<p>
To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the
Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The
requirements are being collected into a document which is available
<a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
</p>
<p>
For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
relevant to Ant 2.0.
</p>
<p>
If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
<a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
your ideas.
</p>
</section>
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Antoine Levy-Lambert